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netsharc on Jan 20, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's that touchscreen in my room?

I wonder if cat /dev/video1 would be enough to turn it into a surveillance device..

squarefoot on Jan 20, 2024 [–]

Not sure about cat, but if one could sneak in netcat or better ffmpeg on Android, then opening a audio/video channel to the outside could become trivial.

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